Re: [Sheflug] CUPS vs BSD

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 September 2002 6:05 pm, Steve Tickle wrote:
> At the risk of starting a some kind of religious war, could someone explain
> the relative benefits/ disadvantages of CUP vs BSD?

These observation are from my own personal experience, and may be technically 
incorrect :)

CUPS allows you to use a single printer name, and then configure things like 
colour/mono, resolution, etc. on the fly, rather than requiring lp, lp_mono, 
lp_hires etc. etc. etc. It also helps network transparency. For instance, 
rather than the old nasty SO5.2 printer setup tool, in SO6 and OOo, you can 
just select the printer, and choose resolution etc. from the setup box.

The drivers appear to be of higher quality too. The photo quality driver is 
much closer photoquality than the nasty, grainy output the old BSD drivers 
produced, although that is probably gimp-print more than CUPS.

-- 
Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk
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